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Passport to Paradise gallery highlights the bold, visual images found
all over Dakar by focusing upon the urban visual culture of the Mourides,
a Senegalese Sufi movement centered upon the life and teachings of
a local saint named Sheikh Amadou Bamba.
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| Poster Announcing the National Week of the Senegalese Woman |
| Description: Poster announcing the National Week of the Senegalese Woman sponsored by the Senegalese Ministry of the Family and National Solidarity from March 30th to April 7th, 2001. A depiction of Mame Diarra Bousso (mother of Sheikh Amadou Bamba) is taken from a lithograph of a painting signed “Wade” that is sold at the Éts. Porokhane shop of Madame Aida Ndiaye Baba Lô. The poster reads “Virtues and Values of the Godmother, Economic Involvement of Women” while a lower caption explains that the “Godmother” is Sokhna Mame Diarra Bousso” (written in Wolof orthography). |
| Publication Date: June 1, 2001 |
| AODL Contributing Partner: Passport to Paradise |
| Copyright: Images and text courtesy of the Fowler Museum of Cultural History, and Drs. Mary Nooter Roberts (Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Fowler) and Allen F. Roberts (Professor, UCLA Department of World Arts & Cultures and Director, James S. Coleman African Studies Center). |
| Author: Dakar, No first name given, Roberts, Allan F., Roberts, Mary Nooter |
| Interviewer: Interviewer Unknown |
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Sampling
from L'Institut Fondemental d'Afrique Noire (IFAN)
Phil Curtin Collection
Collection Boubacar Barry
Collection Charles Becker: Recherches et documents sur
le Sida
Photographs from “Passport to Paradise’:
Sufi Arts of Senegal and Beyond
Mosques of Bondoukou
Futa
Toro, Senegal and Mauritania
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